Google's Play Store gives so many of us a seamless app-purchasing experience that it's easy to take the convenience for granted: we tie a credit card to our accounts, and we're off, ready to purchase away. But things aren't so easy everywhere, especially if you don't have a credit card you can use for such purposes. Today we learn about some steps Google is taking to make Play Store purchases even more accessible, implementing new payment methods and bringing existing ones to new users. Starting today, you can complete Play Store payments via PayPal. Just enter your account details when ...

Should we even be surprised at this point? Time and time again, smartphones roll off the assembly line with all these cool features baked-in, and then carriers go and get uppity about them for one reason or another, and leverage the largely undeserved power they hold over OEMs to force the deactivation of specific abilities. It's a struggle we've been following for years, seeing casualties like NFC payments or unlockable bootloaders get hit along the way. The latest incidents to come to our attention have affected Samsung's Galaxy S5, and earlier this week we talked about how multiple US ...

The Windows Phone App Marketplace keeps growing by the hundreds, and it's always great to seem some essential apps reach it. This time PayPal has brought their official client app to Windows Phone that provides almost every service and functionality that we find in its iOS and Android counterparts. You can send and receive money, administer your account and even access details on all the companies that have said yes to the "PayPal Here" service. Sadly you still can't snap a photo of your credit card to add it as a payment method to your account, but this is just version 1.0, so let's cut ...